Let me start off by saying that I am a huge Star Trek fan, Trekkie if you will. This said, I do question whether I was expecting too much from this game and then I remind myself, it's just bloody awful. From a gamer's perspective it is just mind blowing that this game even managed pass QA, was there any QA?

The Okay

I'll be kind and start off with what this game gets right...

The Co-op is okay, and this is really the only way to play the game and get any form of satisfaction out of it.

It has a story, not much of one but if you're a Trekkie you'll want to see it though simply so you can say "been there, done that, got the T-shirt".

The sound design is good, not great but good.

The voice acting is passable, if a little forced at times and it does tend to over-do the banter to try and make Trekkies feel at home with the main characters. Unfortunately there are times where it serves to remind you of how much better the cheezey dialog from the 70's was.

Okay, so most of the positives I have listed have down-sides, but they are all livable within most games as they are made up for in other ways. Star Trek just doesn't seem to do anything particularly well at all!

The Awful

The story, is at best, simplistic. You play as either Kirk or Spock and you must avert disaster by kicking alien butt before they kick yours. The lore is weak and there is no reason why it should be. Star Trek has a detailed universe with tons of source material and they simply pander to it through-out the game via somewhat sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek, text descriptions. If you would like to see how lore should be explained to the player please have a look at Mass Effect.

The game play tries it's best to mix it up a little by including little mini-games and quite a few free-fall sequences. These can be entertaining; however they are poorly implemented and often too short to appreciate at all. All-in-all it is a corridor shooter filed with somewhat bland level design at times makes you wish for it to end so you can get to the next cut-scene.

The controls feel floaty throughout the game and the camera angles are laughable and frustrating way too many times, I often found myself raging at the game for this. It's like your chosen character is fighting with you as you make your way through the levels. Let's just ignore the cover system, entirely, I don't have and smart comments left for it.

The bugs, this game is one of the buggiest I have ever played! Jokes aside, if this actually went through any form of testing I would be surprised. I felt like I was playing the Beta Version through-out the experience. Below are just some of the things I noticed:

Ledge grabs are awful and the characters constantly glitch into position in order to actually reach the ledges.

Jumping is so hit and miss, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Feel like walking through your partner's character, you can!

Reloading? No time for that, I fired plenty of shots while my gun was in the reload position!

Sometimes it just ignores co-op parameters, I.E. I want to only play as Kirk... Okay Spock it is then!

Honestly I cannot recall every bug I came across, there were just too many. Being the Trekkie that I am, I did my level best to try and ignore them in the hope that it would all pan out... it didn't, ever.

Please, Let It End

This game is an experience I would rather forget, I constantly kept thinking to myself... "I paid a ton of money for this, and I feel robbed!" I honestly feel as though the Producers and the Devs that worked on this had walked into my house, opened up my wallet and borrowed my money with promises to return it... and then promptly skipped the country.

My honest advise that if you are a Trekkie and feel you have to play this, wait! Wait for the price to drop drastically (it won't be long) or pick it up second hand (there will be plenty of trade-ins).

If you want to, you can pick up my copy at your local store, because the moment I finished it I traded it in for Fire Emblem - Awakening, which is turning out to be bloody fantastic... and I hate turn based JRPGs!